I'm quite partial to the suicidal breakdown their translation program had when I was trying to translate the lyrics to The Apothecary Diaries theme song this weekend.
I was looking up something about my son's EEG on Sunday (he has epilepsy) and it said EEGs were used to measure pressure in the 4 chambers of the heart.
That is impressive. I recently googled "state bird" + "vulture" and got the below. (The state bird of the one and only Delaware is in fact a type of chicken.)
I can't believe that Google is still sticking this "right about 85% of the time" product in front of users even when they don't want it, but more to the point, putting it in front of any users at all. Google used to be "all the world's information" but now wants to be known as "ridiculous bullshit."
Yesterday I searched for a comparison on Ibsen translations by Miller, Hampton, and Herzog. The (unwanted) AI response went into the "cinematic style" of the Werner Herzog translation.
n.b., it was Amy Herzog whose version was recently on Broadway.
It's a crock of shit. AI is unreliable & results are skewed towards huge corporations like Amazon, Temu & Shein. We've become lazy seeing it as the only viable search engine to the point that 'to Google' or 'Google' has been solidified in our language. We need to rethink & use other viable options
When I suspect that someone’s AI results are bogus I find that using the same prompt is a good way to check. If you have managed to debunk every screenshot, you should tell Google and ChatGPT that they have at least one satisfied “customer”
I made the mistake of glancing at the AI generated summary of a novel I'd just finished....well, because I like to say something nice it did get the names of the characters correct.
I will be the first to admit that I had no idea there might be such a thing as a good Jewish cow, but if there are, I'm sure *someone's* going to point out to me that those cows, at least, remember to call their mothers regularly.
There's a growing number of converts to Moodaism as well, but the recent revelation that that automatically makes their tripe kosher had really troubled leaders in the Mooish community, particularly the scholars focused on Talmoodic study.
The first five books of the Scriptures of Moodaism were originally said to have been written by Mooses, but scholars now believe they were edited by a number of groups, including the Yawhists, Elohists, Priests, and of course, the Mooteronomists.
The additional sets of books, known as the netmoovi'im and ketmoovi'im respectively, are not accepted as legitimate texts by what is now regarded as an early sister religion that likely broke off about the conquest of sheep empire Baabylon & came from those left behind, today called the Samooritans.
This is always a fun test. Even when a model gets the number correct, it sometimes gets there by being even more incorrect. I know deepseek-r1:1.5b is reduced to a fairly tiny model and thus prone to this, but it's still funny.
the slop machine was obviously wrong in your case but I also recently found out that a bag of tangerines my vegan roommate got was not, in fact, vegan, because they were waxed with a shellac derivative. so, it wasn’t entirely beyond the pale in saying that.
It's our job as humans to approve every bullshite AI answer. Fuck up it's learning algorithm. Fill wiki and reddit with utter nonsense. AI is class war on a massive scale.
Oh I just properly read that answer. I still don’t know what tripe is but whether something is kosher or not has nothing to do with the cow’s religion 😂
I never heard of it. I tried to find the Hebrew word for it to see if that’s familiar but Google translate doesn’t know how to translate it (it translated it as “nonsense”). Maybe it’s not popular among kosher eaters 🤷🏻♀️
I thought we weren't allowed to celebrate "ethnic" holidays anymore. It's hard to keep up! Since Jan 20, I've been drinking like every day is St. Pat's.
I said it to be funny because "does not know from joke" is a deliberately incorrect construction, probably literally translated from Yiddish? but also because it's my simplistic understanding that current neural network AIs are sophisticated enough to generate specific output signals ...
triggered by (who knows what?) digital inputs, but at the same time no where near sophisticated enough to actually know what anything is, does, is for, or means. They are not dumb like dumb people, they are dumb like bacteria. Bacteria do not get jokes either.
Pizza glue is pantheon; bleach and ammonia is actually not good fun if it can legit cause fatality. Like that’s not an obviously bad idea unless you know your cleaning products
Someone cleverer than me found that if you add swear words to your search, it won't bring up AI answers. Which makes your searching sound hilariously angry.
DuckDuckGo works well, you can make it your default search engine…It has a switch in its settings to turn off AI assist. (Also bonus, taking ad revenue away from “Gulf of America” google)
Saw someone suggested using DuckDuckGo (which I do, and it’s just as good) but if you’re attached to google for whatever reason, if you just type -ai at the end of your search query it won’t give you the AI summary!
Stuff like this is just funny, but it's a lot less funny if you Google "does x contain dairy" and get surprise anaphylaxis. The possibilities for that kind of thing are endless. I wonder what the body count for Google AI is by now.
The issue with the AI Overview is that it presents this as a reasoned fact rather than just a search result, and the issue with people is that they take that at face value
I'm not proposing this as a contender (because that is a colossal and glorious failure you posted) but more as a supportive thing about how AI is, well, complete garbage.
New hobby: give feedback to Google Search AI.
I used to help "teach" it by correcting these types of errors.
But I've decided it's more fun telling it the referenced website is not correct, and feeding it something unrelated.
Not by far, though that is the largest plurality. For example, there is significant beef between the Cowtholics and Prodestants, not discounting the various national OrthodOxes.
This reminds me of a board game I often played as a kid, called "rappakalja" (gibberish). The game would ask you to define words or explain things. You would score the most points for knowing the answer, second most for inventing a bogus explanation on the spot that still fooled other players.
Omg, I used to play this a lot in Cuba! We just called it "dictionary", because there was always a person who had the right dictionary definition for the word. You got points for voting for the correct meaning and for fooling others into voting for your made up definition.
We do a version of this in my family, where you'll "correct" the speaker with a word that's a near-homonym & give a wrong definition for the original word. "No, you mean 'interregnum'. 'Interrogate' is this device they use at airports to make everyone terrified before getting on the plane."
My sisters and I played a game we called TV Guide. One of us would look in the TV Guide and either read out a real description or make one up. It was great fun!
(Back then TV Guide had listings for all the shows including the channel they were on, the time they would air, and quick summaries.)
Here's Tom Baker being fucking amazing in the voiceover booth, doing a radio advert for Symphony furniture. Pretty sure this was the basis of Toast of London.
We played the same game in Western Australia in the 60's &70's. We also called it "Dictionary".
It's a great game. All you need is a comprehensive dictionary (the older the better) and pencils and paper.
I cannot tell you how many times I've won that game by claiming my word is a highly specialized fastener used in the aircraft manufacturing industry. 😏
In trying to tease this out myself (not familiar with the source of the quote) I thought the "France is bacon" was maybe referring to how knowledge is power but if your information is total garbage like "France is bacon" then it is useless. I will see myself out...
I thought ai would help with health care or home safety buts like your computer got that fungus that takes over and kills the host but it still can walk around. It’s like clippy doing drugs for days
ha ha apart from the rest of this gibberish I lived in Paris for 10 years and on those (rare) occasions when I fancied cooking myself a full English Breakfast, I discovered it was almost impossible to find proper bacon.
I'm just thankful I can still find Marmite. Very popular in the Netherlands, apparently, though every time I offered it to French friends they found it digusting and accused me of trying to poison them.
Once got stopped on my way to Paris from Waterloo (that's how long ago it was) because the 3 large jars of Marmite in my luggage looked suspicious on the security scanner. (Luckily for me, Albert Heijn - Dutch supermarkt chain, branches in Flanders though not Wallonia - stocks it at a fair price.)
IIRC I was usually able to find actual Heinz baked beans in Paris. But at least France produces plenty of tinned and bottled beans, even if you have to customise them. (The honey is a good tip for future reference, thanks!)
Closed now.
Their Brexit-supporting Chairman went berserk when he discovered that being outside the Single Market meant they couldn’t ship over a ‘Just in Time’ mixed load of beans, sandwiches etc etc without mountains of paperwork and vet checks.
And people trust this company with their savings.
It's not really an hallucination, it is regurgitating a twitter (or reddit ? I don't remember) post of a guy explaining that he mistook "Francis Bacon" for "France is bacon"
That's one of the major limitations of LLMs - they are incapable of "understanding" context. The other is that they literally don't know what words mean. Yet people like Mark Cuban keep repeating the lie that "AI" can already replace human workers! It's idiotic.
when you ask three different AIs to answer a question you already know the answer to (or could work out on a pocket calculator). Most LLMs can't do maths
Wow, that one is totally real. I just tried it and while my response was different it still contained the weird bit about bacon and French and Italian people lol.
When the AI crash happens (probably soon) people will look back at stuff like this and wonder why anyone kept putting money into it. But they did. Anyway - anyone fancy a tulip?
I have nothing against AI and AI research in principle (many very good uses not in the generative or general AI field), but the rush to deploy was an objective act of madness.
Also, our AI is quite visibly broken. But people who understand it and are sympathetic to it will see the promise of it.
So let's push it in *everyone's* face, in such a way that people hate it before they have even tried it, and hate it more afterwards. That will boost confidence in our product.
Of course Italy is bacon, too. (And will likely remain so.)
And so is Waffle House—which is ALSO hash browns, as well.
So we can comfortably conclude: France is bacon. Waffle House is bacon. And in this very special way, Waffle House is France. They've got that "covered."
@shivambhatt.bsky.social i also remember getting shown this one a month or two ago where 'ai' gets confused mid sentence and switches from fingering yarn to fingering (sex) mid sentence.
...Not sure how you figure that. Possibly it's true on actual yarn diameter, but for knitted gauge, a double strand of fingering will indeed turn out somewhere between sport and worsted.
We can agree though that even the most enthusiastic crafter will find it less stimulating than Google believes!
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Thinks it's not kosher.
four delawares
He might try to take the wrinkles out of his nutsack with a hot clothing iron because Google A.I. told him to.
It's bad enough we have adults out here buying hamburgers and getting mad because it's made from cows.
"But ham comes from pork/pig".
Please remember that until you're educated on such things by others that you are likely to think the same.
Just be kind.
n.b., it was Amy Herzog whose version was recently on Broadway.
Zipcodes! The easiest thing to have AI give an answer to.
But I already knew they worship themselves
anyways from my heart burn to yours, *clinks cup of toilet paper*
"I'm calling the police."
DOOMED
(It's Google's money to burn, but couldn't they find better investments than AI? Maybe high-wheeled bicycles?)
There *will* be winners, but there will be many, many more losers.
'Fue' is like "Once I was".
'Era' is like "I used to be". So it is past but 'era' has the continuity 'fue' lacks.
Pero la subrayan con lo de "¿Era Hitler tan malo?"
That’s why the bulls have multiple heifers.
OK.
Does that still count?
Follow Google for more health facts and tips!
https://youtu.be/Hha-3aWEtGI?si=yrPQHaXC9zJvEl-e
-a moderately religious cow
The first five books of the Scriptures of Moodaism were originally said to have been written by Mooses, but scholars now believe they were edited by a number of groups, including the Yawhists, Elohists, Priests, and of course, the Mooteronomists.
But fair.
That way, the veggies can leave it on their plate like everybody else does.
It might aswell be translating to another language and back lol
You can eat the sacred cow
You'll get karma anyhow
Hare, hare, hare🎶
https://musikguru.de/boy-george/songtext-bow-down-mister-9299.html
Cowistianity,✝️
Cowslim, 🕌
Cowudhism,🕉️
Cowtheists,⚛️
Cowanism😈
Cowdaism 🕎
Cowinto⛩️
Cowaha'i 🌞
Cowfucianism 🤔
Cowanism✋
Vegetarianism 🐮
"Practically speaking, unless it’s explicitly labeled kosher, most observant Jews would steer clear just to be safe."
"steer clear"
(Apologies if someone posted this already)
The operative word in that sentence is try.
After some finagling, I got this out of google translate:
I misunderstood that bit of the skeet, so I didn’t realize what Miriam was saying there.
…M’lord
https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/05/29/google-ai-feeling-depressed/
https://tripemarketingboard.co.uk/faqs/#1587984237975-7ff9334c-027d
Like this is a joke but the LLM doesn't know what's a joke.
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¹ Don't do this, it creates a gas that can kill you
² Terrible
https://bsky.app/profile/lom.bsky.social/post/3lgyiivjivs2h
Omg seriously thank you this is awesome. Most of my questions are angry ones anyway!
The issue with the AI Overview is that it presents this as a reasoned fact rather than just a search result, and the issue with people is that they take that at face value
https://bsky.app/profile/onedimental.bsky.social/post/3li6ttip77s2e
I used to help "teach" it by correcting these types of errors.
But I've decided it's more fun telling it the referenced website is not correct, and feeding it something unrelated.
Hm, it no longer appears to give an AI summary (like, nothing at all) for "What is a kosher substitute for salt pork?"
A few months back, it would recommend pancetta or side bacon
~ Trinity
The threads often go on for days.
(Back then TV Guide had listings for all the shows including the channel they were on, the time they would air, and quick summaries.)
https://youtu.be/Y3qilLS1HtY?si=BNEWKdNKZYcwKS2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQeTIjD0T_4
It's a great game. All you need is a comprehensive dictionary (the older the better) and pencils and paper.
Google turned up a blog post which contained an even funnier story
https://bsky.app/profile/stevencurtis.bsky.social/post/3ldj66lqesc2l
(But we have proper food culture 😂)
Their Brexit-supporting Chairman went berserk when he discovered that being outside the Single Market meant they couldn’t ship over a ‘Just in Time’ mixed load of beans, sandwiches etc etc without mountains of paperwork and vet checks.
And people trust this company with their savings.
The first actual Google search result is the real story, the AI summary is complete bollocks.
(Even when criticising generative so-called "AI", I feel it's best not to reinforce techbro scammers' marketing and PR bs.)
https://bsky.app/profile/stevencurtis.bsky.social/post/3ldj66lqesc2l
133 minutes is apparently 1 hour 20 minutes.
Doesn’t understand Gb vs Mb!
(And that, at most basic, computing is maths.)
vs
This is the culmination of what you paid for. More money pls?
So let's push it in *everyone's* face, in such a way that people hate it before they have even tried it, and hate it more afterwards. That will boost confidence in our product.
Of course Italy is bacon, too. (And will likely remain so.)
And so is Waffle House—which is ALSO hash browns, as well.
So we can comfortably conclude: France is bacon. Waffle House is bacon. And in this very special way, Waffle House is France. They've got that "covered."
We can agree though that even the most enthusiastic crafter will find it less stimulating than Google believes!